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• Has become stuck while climbing only once, while ascending the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong in April 2008. On the building's 59th floor, the windows became taller, exceeding his wingspan. After a while, Robert figured out a way to nudge himself to the top.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alain Robert, the "French Spiderman" | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

But let's not get tangled in the numbers. "I wouldn't worry too much about a small amount above or below," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who has done his own analysis of price-to-rent ratios. "It's when you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Own-ward Bound? | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Still, an AIG default could have been catastrophic for Goldman, although Goldman claims to have been perfectly hedged against an AIG bankruptcy. "If AIG would have gone bankrupt, it would have affected every institution in the world, because it would have had a big effect on the entire financial system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

One culprit, of course, is the economy. A person who has lost a job is going to have a tougher time making the mortgage payment. On top of that, a lot of the moratoriums on foreclosures that lenders put into place while the Obama Administration figured out its loan-rewrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Market: Has It Turned the Corner? | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

What's working, exactly, is a series of viral humor sites intended simply "to make people happy for five minutes a day," as Huh puts it. Huh, 31, a journalist turned dotcom entrepreneur, was born in South Korea and moved to California when he was in his teens. He launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a Media Empire Around I Can Has Cheezburger | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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